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50 sample questions

1. A project scope statement is important because it:

A) Breaks a project down into successively greater detail by level
B) Provides the basis for making future project decisions
C) Provides criteria for follow up of project cost
D) Initiates the project
2. You have formed a new project team. Which of the following topics is the
responsibility of this team?
A) Issue the project charter
B) Identify and manage stakeholders
C) Approving the final schedule during schedule development
D) Set priorities between projects
3. You have resolved a two-party conflict by using compromise. What is the likely
result?
A) Win-win
B) Lose-win
C) Lose-lose
D) Win-lose
4. The following are steps of Stakeholder Analysis except:
A) Identify all potential project stakeholders
B) Asses how key stakeholders are likely to react in various situations
C) Analyze the potential impact each stakeholder could generate
D) Identify the desire engagement level of the key stakeholders
5. Which of the following tools are frequently used in Human resource planning
A) Organization charts, Networking, Organizational theory
B) Organization charts, Networking, training
C) Organizational theory, stakeholder analysis, team-building activities
D) Stakeholder analysis, training, team-building activities

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6. The following items are important for professional responsibility except:

A) Do the right thing
B) Avoid to report violations
C) Act ethically
D) Follow the right process
7. Your new assignment is as project manager of an international project. You and
your family will move abroad to a country with a very different culture. The
disorientation that may occur when you find yourself with other cultures in a
different environment is called:
A) Culture difference
B) Culture diversity
C) Culture surprise
D) Culture shock
8. Which are the outputs of Close project?
A) Lessons learned, Final product
B) Administrative closure procedure, corrective action
C) Corrective action, product verification
D) Lessons learned, product verification
9. The following are outputs from Control scope except:
A) Changes Request
B) Work performance information
C) Lessons learned
D) Deliverables
10. As a project manager you can choose between different conflict management
approaches. Which of the following approaches is believed to lead to the least
enduring positive results?
A) Forcing
B) Compromising
C) Withdrawal
D) Problem solving
11. The BAC is $22,000. The present CPI is 0.8. Assuming that the variances in the
past are typical also for the future variances, what is the EAC?
A) $22,000
B) $27,500
C) $17,600
D) $15,000

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12. An appropriate sequence for risk management activities is:

A) Risk analysis, risk mitigation, plan risk responses
B) Identify risks, risk elimination, risk mitigation
C) Identify risks, risk analysis, plan risk responses
D) Risk assessment, risk analysis, plan risk responses
13. To transfer most of the risk to the seller, the buyer may use a _______ contract:
A) Purchase order
B) Cost reimbursable
C) Fixed price
D) Cost plus fixed fee
14. In quality work a diagram which shows how many results were generated by type
or category of identified cause is called:
A) Ishikawa diagram
B) Pareto diagram
C) Responsibility diagram
D) Fishbone diagram
15. The critical path is found by calculating the following dates:
A) Predecessor-to-successor, predecessor-to-predecessor, successor-to-successor
B) Start-to-start, start-to-finish, finish-to-start, finish-to-finish
C) Early start, early finish, late start, late finish
D) Total float start, total float finish
16. The following are tools for Acquire Project Team except:
A) Virtual teams
B) Multi-criteria decision analysis
C) Acquisition
D) Colocation
17. Your most recent project status report contains the following information:
EV=$3,000, AC=$3,500 and PV=$4,000. The project is then:
A) Behind schedule and under budget
B) Behind schedule and over budget
C) Ahead schedule and over budget
D) Ahead schedule and under budget

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18. The following are tools for estimate activity durations except:
A) Analogous estimating
B) Expert judgment
C) Leveling
D) Quantitatively based durations
19. One of the most important roles of the project manager is as:
A) Sponsor
B) Integrator
C) Resource owner
D) Receiver
20. The project management plan is used to all of the following except:
A) Guide execution
B) Document project planning assumptions
C) Develop project charter
D) Facilitate communication among stakeholders
21. A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the
project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required
deliverables is called:
A) Work package
B) Product description
C) Work breakdown structure
D) Product scope
22. Project management processes and product-oriented processes:
A) overlap and interact throughout the project
B) do not interact
C) are used to manage the project work
D) are measured against the product requirements
23. A project document including the identification, assessment, and classification of
project stakeholders is called:
A) Stakeholder plan
B) Stakeholder management list
C) Stakeholder register
D) Stakeholder information
24. The project life cycle is only one stage of the:
A) product life cycle
B) project management life cycle
C) process groups
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D) product development process

25. An advantage of a matrix organization is:
A) Administration is easier
B) Communication is easier
C) Improved project manager control of resources
D) Only one boss for project team members
26. PDM uses four different logical relationships, but it does not use:
A) Start to finish
B) Finish to start
C) Begin to end
D) Finish to finish
27. You have the following activities in a network diagram:
Activity

Predecessors

A
B
C
D
E
F

None
A
A
B
C, D
D

Duration (days)

3
5
6
3
3
4

What is the critical path?

A) ABDE
B) ACE
C) ABDF
D) ACEF
28. In the network diagram above, which activities have float?
A) C, F
B) C, E
C) D, E
D) None
29. In the network diagram above, what happens if the duration of activity C is 9 days?
A) The length of the critical path has increased by one day
B) The critical path is ACE
C) The float of E is one day
D) The network has two critical paths

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30. The following items are inputs to Develop project charter:

A) Agreements, statement of work, lessons learned
B) Contract, statement of work, scope statement
C) Contract, expert judgment, scope statement
D) Product description, scope statement, project selection criteria
31. Quality audits are used in Perform quality assurance to:
A) help analyze how problems occur
B) identify lessons learned that can improve performance of this project
C) identify lessons learned that can improve performance of this project or of other
projects
D) forecast future outcomes based on historical results
32. The CPI, which is used to forecast final cost of the project, is calculated by using
which formula?
A) EV/AC
B) AC/EV
C) EV/PV
D) PV/EV
33. A project team consisting of 4 persons work with a work package. To increase
speed two more persons are added to the team. How many communication
channels are added?
A) 8
B) 9
C) 10
D) 11
34. Suppose a project of $2 million has a risk with probability 0.12 of occurrence and a
potential loss of $30,000. This represents an expected negative value of:
A) $24,000
B) $240,000
C) $36,000
D) $3,600
35. In a buyer/seller relationship a Cost-plus-incentive fee contract is signed. The target
cost is $100, the fee to the seller is $10 and the sharing formula is 85/15%. If the
sellers cost is 80, what is the final price?
A) $85
B) $90
C) $93
D) $100

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36. What is the main difference between an internal agreement within the performing
organization and a contract with an external company?
A) Internal agreements are easier to change
B) Internal agreements do not need to be signed
C) A contract is legally binding
D) Contract language is difficult to understand
37. Risks will be identified during which phase of the project life cycle?
A) Concept phase
B) Development phase
C) Implementation phase
D) All phases
38. Decomposition is a technique used to construct a:
A) Risk plan
B) Project plan
C) Work breakdown structure
D) Network diagram
39. You are the project manager for a $2 million project. The customer is not satisfied
with the high risk of the project which is due to a new advanced technology which
the project team has proposed. Therefore, you and the project team propose that
an old well known technology will be used. What is this risk response technique
called?
A) Avoidance
B) Transference
C) Mitigation
D) Acceptance
40. Customer satisfaction requires a combination of:
A) Gold plating and fitness for use
B) Conformance to requirements and fulfillment of budget requirements
C) Fitness for use and fulfillment of budget requirements
D) Conformance to requirements and fitness for use
41. Manage Stakeholder Engagement belongs to which of the following process group?
A) Controlling processes
B) Planning processes
C) Executing processes
D) Closing processes

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42. A cost baseline has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) It is a time phased cost plan
B) It is a component of the project management plan
C) It is approved by the senior management
D) It shows the actual costs by period
43. A Benefit cost ratio of 1.6 means?
A) Costs are 1.6 times the profit
B) Profit is 1.6 times the costs
C) Payback is 1.6 times the costs
D) Costs are 1.6 times the payback
44. Conduct procurements belongs to the following process group:
A) Controlling processes
B) Planning processes
C) Executing processes
D) Closing processes
45. The fundamental tenets of modern quality management is that quality is:
A) designed and built in
B) planned, designed and built in
C) built and inspected in
D) designed, built and inspected in
46. Because the product of the project is unique, the characteristics that distinguish the
product must be:
A) progressively planned
B) elaborated in advance
C) meticulously planned
D) progressively elaborated
47. Which are the outputs of Control Stakeholder Engagement?
A) Change Requests, Project Documents Updates and Stakeholder Engagement
Plan
B) Change Requests, Project Management Plan Updates and Work Performance
Information
C) Change Requests Project Management Plan Updates and Work Performance
Data
D) Project Management Plan Updates, Work Performance Information and
Information management System
48. All the following are interpersonal skills of a Project Manager, except:
A) Team building
B) Competence
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C) Motivation
D) Decision making
49. A distinct, scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project is
called?
A) Activity
B) Project task
C) Activity code
D) Work package
50. Maslows hierarchy of needs theory has five levels. What is the highest level called?
A) Physiological needs
B) Esteem needs
C) Social/affiliation needs
D) Self-actualization needs

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